The folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute have produced a brief web movie which "dramatizes", if one may use the term, the classic economics essay I, Pencil. It's quite well done.
And for the less high-concept version, here's the How It's Made (a wildly popular series in the Darwin household) episode on pencils:
Did you ever read Henry Petroski's book "The Pencil?" It is an impressively thick tome.
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Petroski is one of the best engineering writers out there.
No, I haven't. I'll have to take a look.
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